The Freshies

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The Freshies is the name of a band from Manchester, England formed in the mid 1970's. Their first single, The Freshies EP, was released in 1978 on the RAZZ record label. Their biggest selling and best known song is 1980's "I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk" renamed as "I'm In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk" on request from Virgin Records, which reached number 54 in the UK charts in 1981. The Freshies were led by Chris Sievey, whose alter-ego Frank Sidebottom was also their biggest fan. Others who played with Sievey inluded Martin Jackson (later with Magazine) and Billy Duffy (later with The Cult). The usual line-up, however, was Barry Spencer (guitar), Rick Sarko (bass, ex-The Nosebleeds) and Mike Doherty (drums, ex-The Smirks). Sievey pre-dated the self-financing ethic of punk when he created his own record label "Razz" in 1974. "Razz" went on to release over 60 titles, including much of The Freshies material. They also produced possibly the first multi-media single by including The Biz, a Sinclair ZX81 game, on the tape version of one of their singles, something which Sievey later did himself as a solo artist with his single "Camouflage". Sievey died on June 21 in 2010 at the age of 54, due to head and neck cancer. Although dying nearly penniless and was almost given a paupers funeral, in a matter of a few days £21,631.55 was raised to give Sievey a proper funeral. Even after death, Sievey's art

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The Very Best Of

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Punk: Lost & Found

Remembering The Freshies

The Very Best Of The Freshies

The Very Very Best of the Freshies: Some Long & Short Titles

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The Very Very Best Of....

Very Very Best of Freshies

The Very Very Best of... Some Long and Short Titles

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Indie City 1 (NME036)

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An Alternative Guide to Post Punk

Obscure Independent Classics, Vol. 2

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Teenage Kicks: Punk 2

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